Food Safety
Testing pH and Water Activity
pH and water activity levels that are too high or too low affect meat quality and safety. This quick guide helps you test for both.
Food Safety
The Role of Microbial Testing in Raw Beef
Understand types of microbiological testing for raw beef, what to test and when, and how to utilize testing data for continuous improvement.
Customer Resources
How Smart is Beef?
Help your customers understand the facts about beef’s unusual upcycling superpower and its indispensable value as a nutrient-rich source of protein.
Food Safety
Food Safety Best Practices for Ground Meat
The Beef Industry Food Safety Council members share knowledge and best practices for sourcing safe raw materials all the way to shipping finished ground meat products.
Business
Meat Pricing & Profitability
Setting a profitable price for your direct-to-consumer meat sales requires careful record keeping and analysis, starting with your cost of production.
Business
Want to Start a Small Meat Processing Plant?
Think through and write your own business plan to determine if building a meat processing facility would be viable and sustainable in your market.
Business
Beef or Hogs?
Should you process and sell beef, hogs, deer, or all of the above? Download this pdf for some good advice about estimating profitability per species.
Business
Evaluating a Freezer Beef Price
Calculate your freezer beef P&L compared to selling on a live basis, expected amount of beef and estimate prices for freezer beef when selling whole animals, halves and quarters of beef.
Business
Selling Freezer Beef
Use this fact sheet to successfully sell freezer beef by communicating the value and quality of the meat and setting an appropriate price per pound.
Customer Resources
Beef Yields and Storage Needs
This simple chart takes you from starting live weight to carcass hanging weight to your final meat yield in pounds and the cubic feet of freezer storage you’ll need.
Meat Cutting
An Inside Look at Beef
Learn your way around muscle names, locations and functions and gain a better understanding of the entire beef carcass.
Meat Cutting
Creating More Value in Beef Cuts
Learn how up-and-coming beef cuts can help you pull more value out of your next beef carcass with this rich online resource that includes location diagrams and nutrition data.